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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes on The Menagerie, Part I and II
Here’s a bit of old school nerd trivia for you: three TOS episodes were nominated in the 1967 Hugo Awards for Best Dramatic Presentation: “The Naked Time,” “The Corbomite Maneuver,” and “The...
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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes On “The Conscience of the King”
From Klingons spouting Hamlet quotes to Captain Picard fake-wooing Lwaxana Troi with a sonnet mashup, Star Trek has had a very long and very weird history with William Shakespeare. In fact, the Bard...
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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes On “Balance of Terror”
With the Write-a-Thon over, I finally have some time to focus on what really matters: my super timely recaps of a 50-year-old science fiction television show! Yes, my friends, we are back to TOS again....
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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes On “Shore Leave”
Friends, this one started out promising, it really did. Sulu and Bones are on an away mission! Super wacky shit starts happening! A single massage ignites the passionate ship that is Spock and Kirk! ....
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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes on “The Galileo Seven”
Often, I dream about becoming a fixer. Not a political fixer or someone who takes care of inconvenient dead bodies, but a Story Fixer. Someone who walks into the Writer’s Room and says, “People, you...
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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes On “The Squire of Gothos”
Hello! It’s been a busy few weeks here at My Geek Blasphemy: I traveled to WorldCon, then DragonCon, then to a good friend’s wedding, and while I had fun at all those events, I also kinda never want to...
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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes On “Arena”
Friends. Enemies. People who’ve accidentally stumbled over this blog whilst looking for a subscription service called My Geek Box. We have finally arrived at the TOS episode with possibly the most...
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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes On “Tomorrow Is Yesterday”
Oh, time travel. Much like Shakespeare, time travel has become something of a staple in the Trek universe. And with the very brief, inconsequential exception of “The Naked Time,” where the Enterprise...
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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes On “Court Martial”
Well, now that Halloween is over–sob–is it time to get back to Star Trek? In this episode, Kirk is on trial for murder! I wonder what the verdict will be. DISCLAIMER There will be SPOILERS for this...
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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes On “The Return of the Archons”
You ever play that game where someone writes the first paragraph of a story and hands it to the next person, who writes the second paragraph of the story and hands it to a third person, who–while...
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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes On “Space Seed”
Mekaela and I have been binging Brooklyn Nine-Nine pretty much nonstop (seriously, it’s INSANE how fast we’ve gone through four seasons), so Star Trek has kinda fallen by the wayside lately. Recently,...
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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes On “A Taste of Armageddon”
Now that I’ve finished obsessively watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine–well, until Season 6 comes out in January, that is–it’s time to return to TOS. Today’s episode is all about the cost of war, and while...
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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes On “This Side of Paradise”
There have been plenty of old flames in this first season of Star Trek. Bones ran into his ex-girlfriend. (She was actually a salt-devouring monster.) Nurse Chapel ran into her ex-fiancee. (He was...
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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes On “The Devil in the Dark”
Years ago, at DragonCon, I watched Mother Horta take home the crown at the annual Miss Star Trek Universe Pageant. Of course, that mostly meant I had to do some quick Googling because, not having...
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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes on “Errand of Mercy”
I don’t know if any fictional species has undergone as much alteration as the Klingons. From TOS to TNG to the Kelvin Verse to Discovery, the Klingons have drastically changed in terms of both...
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The Big TV Recap: Umbrella Academy, Russian Doll, Shadowhunters, Killing Eve,...
Lately, I’ve been ignoring pretty much every movie in my queue (not to mention my TOS recaps) in favor of binge watching non-Star Trek-related TV. That’s not particularly unusual for me, but it has...
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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes On “The Alternative Factor”
I assumed that “Mirror, Mirror” would be TOS’s first foray into the subject of parallel universes, but apparently, I was wrong: “The Alternative Factor” is not, as I initially suspected, some sci-fi...
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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes On “The City on the Edge of Forever”
“The City on the Edge of Forever” is one of the handful of TOS episodes I’ve actually seen before. A few years ago, my dad was living with us for a short time and–back in the days of actually having...
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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes On “Operation–Annihilate!”
Over a year ago, I made a resolution: to watch and review the entire original series of Star Trek. Considering it’s only three seasons long, I figured I had a decent shot of finishing it all by 2019; I...
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World’s Worst Trekkie: Carlie Takes On “Amok Time”
Well, after a brief break, we’ve begun watching Season 2 of TOS, which kicks off with “Amok Time,” otherwise known as the episode where Spock goes into heat and murders the captain. God, I can’t even...
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